Thanks to our chorus and audience for a wonderful festival!

A LITTLE LIGHT MUSIC
Songs of Electromagnetic Radiation

Directed by Laura Backley

Learn more about A Little Light Music and hear/view the performance

Peruse the program booklet for the performances

A Little Light Music explored topics related to light and the entire electromagnetic spectrum, in recognition of 2015 as the UN-designated International Year of Light. We presented songs by a variety of composers, including David Haines, who has been featured prominently in many of our previous Science Festival Choruses; Andrea Gaudette, Dan Kallman, Dan Kohane, Bruce Lazarus, and Lauren Mayer, whose wonderful songs we have also performed in previous shows; as well as first-time contributors Michael Ching, Tim Maurice, and Family Opera's own long-time participant, Ruth Hertzman-Miller. One of the lyricists this year was Hugo Award winning writer James Patrick Kelly.

These gifted composers have written some beautiful, interesting, and kid-friendly music, which everyone enjoyed performing. The topics of the songs were as diverse as the Northern Lights, the speed of light, radio waves, different parts of the spectrum seen by different animals, and cosmic background radiation. We also sang a medley of songs composed last year by Cambridge Public School students under the direction of David Haines, as part of David's CPS Songwriting Workshops. Our three performances were presented with an accompanying slideshow of children’s artwork and lyrics.  

Learn more and listen to the 2014 performance of Powers of Ten, by David Haines, performed as part of the 2014 Cambridge Science Festival. And here are recordings from our 2013 science chorus, H₂Oratorio.